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The story opens as the narrator, a man named Ferguson (an Updike autobiographical figure), is reminiscing about festivities in his boyhood community that included an “egg-and-spoon race” for local children. Ferguson, an archaeologist, recalls the general outpouring of the community's grief at the passing of his father, a retired school teacher.
An egg-and-spoon race is a sporting event in which participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line. At many primary schools an egg-and-spoon race is staged as part of the annual Sports Day , alongside other events such as the sack race and the three-legged race .
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Egg spoon — for eating soft boiled eggs; with a shorter handle and bowl than a teaspoon, and a bowl broadly round across the end, rather than pointed, intended to enable the user to scrape soft-boiled egg out of the shell; French sauce spoon — for eating sauce; similar to a dessert spoon, but with a flatter, notched bowl
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Noted for listing a variety of international works, 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up features stories originally written in a multitude of languages, which includes Japanese, Slovak, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Russian and Dutch. [3]
Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children.